Using this forum and privacy issues

[Admin]

This forum is open to the public which means that anyone can pop in and read what we're writing. Likewise, search engines such as google etc can also find anything written here.

Please don't use your real name in this forum and don't share personal information here unless you're comfortable with it being public.

Only members (people who have registered) can post in this forum and only members have access to useful information such as memberlist, search etc.

I'd love it if people could contribute to this forum. You don't need me to post a new story, you can go right ahead and post new stories yourselves. Just use the 'post new topic' button.

[Admin]

In order to become a member, you have to register and your request will be sent to the Admin (that's me, Katiedot) for approval.

Registration is quick, free and doesn't require any personal information other than your email address.

Please remember that I work in another time zone and it may take a while for me to approve your registration.

[Ello]

Hello!
Wow, this is great Katie! Wishing much success for the Clooney open house in 2011 and beyond..

[Admin]

Thanks! And happy posting!

[melbert]

KatieDot - this is GREAT! Thanks for the invite! Wishing you the best of success!!

[Katiedot]

Happy to see you too Melbert!

And sorry about the annoying ads at the top of the page. I'll see if I can get rid of them, but I think that's part of having a free hosted site.

[Merlin]

Hi Everyone...thanks for setting this up Katiedot...you've done a lot of work on it already...looks great!

[Katiedot]

Hi Merlin

Lovely to see you here! Really hope you can add to this forum and find it a second home.

[Guest]

Hey Katie, well done, it looks great and I love your house rules!

[Dexterdidit]

Hey Katie, you can never have too much Clooney. Great rules and I'm sure I will see some old faces and hopefully many new ones! Thanks.

[Lighterside]

Katie you did a fabulous job already! Thanks for doing this, I know you're busy with work so this is really great. We now have FOUR new homes...who'd have thought that New Kid, Caged and Em would give birth to quads! Hahaha

[ManhattanMaven]

YAY...i think i finally figured out how to post!!

[Lighterside]

Go Maven! YAY!

[Katiedot]

Yay Maven! Good work!!

[cindigirl]

Katie, thanks for the invite. Finally figured out what "user name" is - not my name but my sign in name.

[CarraVogue]

Yay! I finally figured out how to get here. This is great Katie!

[Casey]

Katie! This is great! Looks wonderful!

[Henway]

Maven if you can do it so can I.

[Merlin]

Ha ha....I was just going to put my birthday in my profile but not the year but it won't accept a user less than 100 years old

[melbert]

I saw that too Merlin! Then when I did put in the year, on my first post it showed my age. Sure made me LOOK old!!!

[Katiedot]

Hahah! That may have been me playing around. I tried to set it so the age wouldn't show and then I set 100 thinking that was the max possible age - maybe it was the minimum?

[ManhattanMaven]

ROFL...Katie that is SO FUNNY!! Most of us are "women of a certain age" so maybe we should just leave age out of it...LOL!

[Dexterdidit]

What some people will do for a telegram from the queen! Some days I feel 100 though.

cheers

Dexterdidit

[sisieq]

What some people will do for a telegram from the queen! Some days I feel 100 though.

cheers

Dexterdidit

Don't know if NBC's Today Show still wishes people Happy Birthday for their 100th.

[melbert]

Yes, they still do Sisieq. Willard Scott is fumbling over the names really bad though.

[Katiedot]

One of the most annoying things about the internet is that no one knows who anyone else really is. I take it on trust that we all are who we say we are and I don't allow anyone to have more than one username or pretend to be anyone else.

I do see that there is someone who's (not very successfully) trying to hide her ID by using a proxy server. I would warn that if you're using sites such as hidemyass.com to surf the net, then every single keystroke you make and every site you visit including passwords etc are accessible to the proxy site you're using.

Given the obviously close relationship between proxy hosts and phishers, spammers and the like, you'd have to be very careful who you would trust with that information because there's a good chance that it could be abused.

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